Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Homo Sapiens - Embodiment of Intelligence?

I
wonder why most people find the concept of Oneness so difficult to accept.
Latest reports from scientists claim that there are 8.7 million species. We
need more accountants as, apparently, “cataloguing them all could take more
than 1,000 years”. Though I’m neither an accountant nor a statistician, by my
reckoning, probably double that number still hides in the depth of the oceans.

In 1935 Alexis Carrel wrote that “L’Homme,
cet inconnu”. For me, man remains an unknown entity to this day. And yet,
no matter how much we enjoy murdering each other out of greed, in wars, or just
dropping bombs from 30,000 feet up in the air, nobody disputes that we, Homo sapiens, are a single species. Though
we kill an astounding number of men and women, with the exception of some quasi-religious
zealots, almost no one denies that we kill our own kind. Of course, when we exterminate
other species that’s perfectly all right, because none of the others have been
created “unto the image and likeness of god”. They don’t matter at all…

But we are different. We are “Wise Men”. That’s what Homo sapiens means in Latin. We, supreme
species, above all others. Yea! Über
Alles?

Imagine how different the world would be if we were to recognize that
not our bodies are part of a single species, but our consciousness. That a
single intelligence is trying, so desperately, to manifest through our bodies.
That our consciousness, not our bodies is One. A Single Intelligence
manifesting through near-infinite diversity of forms.

We’d probably have to include at least some of the 8.7 million other
species in this equation, of course. Or we might become 8,700,001. All One,
single intelligence manifesting, as best IT can, through all means available to
IT. And then we would add all the, as yet unknown, extraterrestrial species to
this Singularity of Consciousness. All different, all striving to comprehend
this elusive, intangible, yet strangely euphoric Oneness.

Just imagine…

I firmly believe that in time, perhaps a few trillion years or so, we
shall begin to feel this Oneness. Instead of killing each other we might
cooperate to reach greater understanding of the infinite diversity of creation.
Our thoughts will create universes beyond our wildest imagination. Worlds of
near-infinite beauty. Of singularity of Mind, or Love…

We would all become ONE.

And there is more. Having achieved this evolutionary level we would
know without the slightest shadow of doubt that this creative zeal of ours
would never end. That ever-new ideas would flow from the Source of Infinite Potential
(the Unconscious), waiting to be manifested in equally as infinite number of
transient realities. After all, only the creative act is the manifestation of Life.
The rest is just a consequence.

There’s no hurry.

After all, as gods, we are all immortal. We must prepare to accept our
heritage. It is waiting within us to be discovered. Within you and me—within
every single one of us.

About Me

An architect, sculptor, and prolific writer was educated in Poland and England. Since 1965 he has resided in Canada. His special interests cover a broad spectrum of arts, sciences, and philosophy. His fiction and non-fiction attest to his particular passion for the scope and the development of Human Potential. Under his real name, he published seven non-fiction books sharing his vision of reality. He also composed two collections of poems in his original native tongue in which he satirizes his view of the world while paying homage to Bozena Happach's sculptures. As an architect [RIBA, MRAIC, OAQ ret.] he designed a number high rise buildings in Montreal, including Regency Hyatt Hotel (now Delta), Place Mercantile, Headquarters for the Mutual Alliance, as well as a number of low and middle rise structures for private clients. In the National Capital he was the associate in charge of design of Royal Bank Headquarters on Sparks Street.